Title SABR 50 at 50 : the Society for American Baseball Research's fifty most essential contributions to the game / edited by Bill Nowlin ; associate editors Mark Armour, Scott Bush, Leslie Heaphy, Jacob Pomrenke, Cecilia Tan ; foreword by John Thorn

Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Ernie Lanigan -- patron saint of SABR / Frederick G. Leib -- Relative batting averages / David Shoebotham -- The best games pitched in relief / L. Robert Davids -- The first Negro in twentieth-century O.B. / William J. Weiss -- Average batting skill through major-league history / Richard D. Cramer -- Runs and wins / Pete Palmer -- Ladies and gentlemen, presenting Marty McHale / Lawrence S. Ritter -- In pursuit of Bull Durham / Bill Haber -- Out at home / Jerry Malloy -- The Federal League and the courts / Gary D. Hailey -- J. Lee Richmond's remarkable 1879 season / John R. Husman -- Roy Tucker, not Roy Hobbs : the baseball novels of John R. Tunis / Philip Bergen -- Zane Grey's redheaded outfield / Joseph M. Overfield -- Honus Wagner's rookie year, 1895 / A.D. Suehsdorf -- Four teams out : the National League reduction of 1900 / Bob Bailey -- Jackie Robinson's signing : the real story / John Thorn and Jules Tygiel -- Locating Philadelphia's historic ballfields / Jerrold Casway -- Smokey and the Bandit : the greatest pitching duel in blackball history / Larry Lester -- The evolution of the baseball diamond : perfection came slowly / Tom Shieber -- The book / Karl Lindholm -- Cricket and Mr. Spalding / Tom Melville -- Lifting the Iron Curtain of Cuban baseball / Peter C. Bjarkman -- The Colorado Silver Bullets : can promotion based on the "battle of the sexes" be successful / Gai Ingham Berlage -- Cy Seymour : only Babe Ruth was more versatile / Bill Kirwin -- Free agency in 1923 : a shocker for baseball / Steve Steinberg -- Hack Wilson's 191st RBI : a persistent itch finally scratched / Clifford S. Kachline -- John McGraw comes to New York : the 1902 Giants / Clifford Blau -- Underestimating the fog / Bill James -- Which great teams were just lucky? / Phil Birnbaum -- Why is the shortstop "6"? / Keith Olbermann -- Do batters learn during a game? / David W. Smith -- New light on an old scandal / Gene Carney -- Roberto Clemente's entry into organized baseball / Stew Thornley -- The effects of integration, 1947-86 / Mark Armour -- Pots & pans and bats & balls / John Thorn -- History vs. Harry Frazee : re-revising the history / Daniel R. Levitt, Mark L. Armour, Matthew Levitt -- The quest for Dick McBride / Peter Morris -- Zooming in on a great old photo / Mark Fimoff -- The Georgia Peach : stumped by the storyteller / William R. Cobb -- Babe Ruth, Eiji Sawamura, and war / Robert K. Fitts -- Lou Gehrig's RBI record : 1923-39 / Herm Krabbenhoft -- Clutch hitting in the major leagues : a psychological perspective / Leonard S. Newman -- Do hitters boost their performance during their contract years? Evidence from the 2006-11 collective bargaining agreement's years says "yes" / Heather M. O'Neill -- The double victory campaign and the campaign to integrate baseball / Duke Goldman -- The Black Sox scandal / William F. Lamb -- Bill McKechnie / Warren Corbett -- The roster depreciation allowance : how Major League Baseball teams turn profits into losses / Stephen R. Kenney -- Professional woman umpires / Leslie Heaphy -- The struggle to define "valuable" : tradition vs. sabermetrics in the 2012 AL MVP race / Peter B. Gregg -- From Usenet joke to baseball flashpoint : the growth of "three true outcomes" / Diane Firstman Summary "SABR 50 at 50 celebrates and highlights the Society for American Baseball Research's wide-ranging contributions to the game of baseball"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Print version record Subject Society for American Baseball Research -- History Society for American Baseball Research Baseball -- History -- Research -- United States Baseball -- United States -- Statistics Baseball -- United States -- History SPORTS & RECREATION -- Baseball -- History. Baseball Baseball -- Statistics United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Nowlin, Bill, 1945- editor. Armour, Mark L., editor Bush, Scott, 1982- editor. Heaphy, Leslie A., 1964- editor. Pomrenke, Jacob, editor Tan, Cecilia, 1967- editor. Thorn, John, 1947- writer of foreword. ISBN 9781496223265 1496223268

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